Author Archives: Randy Thoms
Strong Support For Horwath's Leadership
NDP faithful are giving their leader a strong mandate to continue. Eight-four per cent of delegates attending the party's convention over the weekend voted in support of Andrea Horwath remaining as le...
Jun 18, 2019 Andrea Horwatch attending Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association Conference in Thunder Bay in May 2019
Local Sports Report For Tuesday, June 18
A couple of forfeits highlighted last night's action Rainy River District Women's Fastball League. The front-running Couchiching Raiders were handed the win over the Angels while the Mud Dogs awarded ...
Jun 18, 2019
Keep Voting
Rainy Lake Gymnastic Academy is still hanging on to one of two spots that will earn them $5-thousand in this year's Tbaytel For Good campaign. As of this morning, the Club has more than 92-thousand vo...
Jun 18, 2019
Cadets Return From D-Day Ceremonies
A group of cadets from Fort Frances are back home after participating in the 75th anniversary of D-Day at Juno Beach. Five cadets with the 908 Rainy Lake Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadron and three a...
Jun 17, 2019 Photo courtesy Kirsty Sinclair
Recycling Bin Dedicated In Honour Of Fort Frances Man
The Voyageur Lions Club is remembering a Fort Frances resident. One of its bins for collecting used pop cans has been dedicated in honour of Arlan Scott. He passed away last August. A ceremony was hel...
Jun 17, 2019
Rubber Duck Pays Off A Thousand
Some 800 rubber ducks floated down the Rainy River Saturday. It was part of a fundraiser for the Fun in the Sun Committee and Fort Frances Lions Club. Jason Bragg was the winner of the first place tho...
Jun 17, 2019
Need For More Kids To Be Counted
Minnesota is doing well by its children when it comes to overall well-being, but child advocates say Minnesota's Native American children and children of color experience vast disparities in outcomes....
Jun 17, 2019 Minnesota consistently ranks high for child well-being, but a new report shows huge gaps when race and ethnicity are factored in (credit: unm.edu)
Raptors Win Big For TV
Last week's historic championship win by the Toronto Raptors was also historic for television. Preliminary numbers from Numeris say 7.7 million viewers tuned into TSN, CTV and RDS for game 6 of the NB...
Jun 17, 2019 Fort Frances residents gathered June 13 at Rainy Lake Square to watch game six of NBA final
Local Sports Report For Monday, June 17
Fort Frances Lakers have a member from their 2016-17 squad back. A trade with the Soo Thunderbirds of the Northern Ontario Junior League returns Tyler Malpass back to the Lakers. He notched 15 goals a...
Jun 17, 2019
Fire Hazard Easing
Cooler temperatures have lowered the forest fire hazard in much of northwestern Ontario to low. It's high to extreme in part of the Red Lake and Kenora area where most of the recent forest fire activi...
Jun 14, 2019
